Hi Lorenzo, apart from experimentation it's not recommended to directly use Flink's ActorSystem, because it is an implementation detail. With Flip-6 the ActorSystem will be further hidden and in the future we might implement a different RPC system not relying on Akka.
Cheers, Till On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 8:11 PM, Chesnay Schepler <ches...@apache.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I don't think the actor system is exposed to operators in any way. > > If you want to access it whatever it may take (reflection etc.) you could > try working your way through the metric group (through the runtime context) > into the MetricRegistry and from the into the MetricQueryService. > > Regards, > Chesnay > > > On 12.07.2017 17:05, Lorenzo Affetti wrote: > >> Hello everybody, >> >> I want to do some experiments with communication across operators. >> Even if arguable, I wondered if it is possible to directly use the >> clustered actor system used by Flink. >> If so, how can I get an instance of the actor system in an Operator? >> >> Thank you in advance >> >> Lorenzo Affetti >> >> >> >> >> >
